Garden Tip: How to keep Mother's Day roses through summer

A roses in bloom at the Morcom Rose Garden in Oakland, Calif., Saturday, April 26, 2014. Thousands of community and corporate volunteers clean and green more than 90 locations throughout Oakland during the 20th annual Oakland Earth Day. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
ANDA CHU

Roses come in so many lovely colors and fragrances. To continue to get those wonderful blooms, feed your roses with a balanced organic fertilizer labeled 10-10-10 or 15-15-15. These numbers refer to the percentage of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium.

Deadhead old flowers by cutting back to a five-leaflet leaf. Water regularly and control pests, and you'll have those beautiful flowers all summer long!